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"what happened?"

Chong Huan was surprised and said: "Li Zhen only has two lairs, how could there be a third one? Have you seen it clearly?"

The inner guard who reported to Zhong Huan was the old woman who worshiped the Buddha piously. The old woman was actually a thin inner guard soldier in disguise.

"Xiaozhi was not mistaken. He entered that courtyard, stayed there for a stick of incense, and then came out again."

Xu Chengdao, the commander next to him: "General, Yao Kaishan probably won't hide it, and Yao Kaishan probably doesn't know about this third lair."

Zhong Huan nodded, he thought it should be so.

At this time, another inner guard soldier came in to report, "General Qi, the five subordinates are all in the school, and they are all gathered."

Zhong Huan pondered for a moment and said, "I'll go find the governor of Luoyang Mansion!"

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Li Zhen was very leisurely. He had a class for half an hour, and then he had nothing to do. He was sitting in his room drinking tea.

At this time, the tea boy said at the door: "Master, Governor Yu sent someone to invite you!"

Li Zhen got up and walked out the door, only to see a young civil official bowing his head and saying: "My envoy invited a few poet friends to have a gathering, and I specially asked the humble official to invite you to come over."

Li Zhen laughed and said, "How could your envoy have such an elegant mood?"

"He wrote a few poems last night, and they feel good, please go and review them, sir."

Li Zhen stroked his beard happily and said, "Okay! I'll go to join in the show, is there a carriage?"

"The envoy's carriage is waiting outside the gate."

Li Zhen took a fan and walked briskly with the civil servants towards the gate of the school. He is now trying his best to expand his contacts, and it is rare for Governor Yu to invite him. This is an opportunity.

There was a large carriage parked outside the gate of Fuxue, and Li Zhen recognized at a glance that it was the special carriage of Governor Yu, and Li Zhen felt very honored to use the special carriage of Governor Yu to pick him up.

"Sir please!"

The civil official opened the car door and invited him in.

Just as Li Zhen got into the carriage, he found a thick and big man in front of him. He was stunned, and before he could react, he fisted "Bang!" 'He hit him hard on the face, and Li Zhen fainted immediately.

The carriage started immediately and drove towards the inner guard branch point...

At the same time, forty inner guard soldiers were divided into three groups to copy Li Zhen's lair respectively.

Twenty inner guard soldiers went to the school, led by Xu Cheng, they were responsible for arresting five subordinates.

Chong Huan is very interested in Li Zhen's third lair, and he has an intuition that there must be some secret hidden in the third lair.

Zhong Huan personally led ten soldiers to the third lair. The wall was not high, so there was no need to open the door.

Chong Huan walked into the yard, only to hear a loud chatter in the room. After a while, the soldiers escorted the three of them out.

"General, there are three intelligence agents here."

Chong Huan frowned. There were only five intelligence agents, so why were there three more?

Could it be that Yao Kaishan deliberately concealed it?

impossible!He is more afraid of death than anyone else, and he dare not hide it if he wants to live.

At this time, the leading man among the three said in fluent Chinese: "General, we are not Korean spies!"

Zhong Huan went up to look at them, and seeing that they did not look like Han Chinese, he asked, "Who are you?"

"We are overseas students sent by Japan to your country."

"Japanese!" Zhong Huan was stunned.

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After listening to Zhong Huan's report, Chen Qing's brows were also frowned. How could there be Japanese, it was unexpected.

"Have people been sent to clear the two strongholds in Pingzhou, Penglai County?" Chen Qing is still concerned about the intelligence point of Korea for the time being.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the internal guards have branches on Shandong Road and Yanshan Road. The ministers have already sent a letter to them, ordering them to request the assistance of the local garrison to wipe out these two intelligence stations. They are all using their identities as businessmen as a cover. Very few, there are only three people in Penglai, and only two people in Pingzhou."

"Li Zhen explained?"

Zhong Huan bowed and said: "He explained part of it, which was beyond my expectation. He actually worked for Korea and Japan at the same time."

Chen Qing thought for a while, then asked: "Is he from Baekje?"

"Exactly, he is a descendant of the Xie family among the nine major families in Baekje, but he concealed his true identity in Korea."

Chen Qing nodded. Baekje people are not surprising. Since the Tang Dynasty, the Baekje people living in the southeast of the peninsula have been pro-Japanese. The king has always been a puppet manipulated by Japan.

Although Baekje has been destroyed for hundreds of years, as long as Japan's ambition to spy on the peninsula remains, the pro-Japanese legacy left by Baekje will always exist. This Li Zhen is obviously one of them.

As for Japan's collection of information about the Yong Dynasty, Chen Qing is not surprised. It began in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but at that time Japan was more for learning, but it was not a disguised form of intelligence collection.

At this time, Chen Qing suddenly became vigilant, Japan has been a poisonous snake for thousands of years, the Yong Dynasty bought Japanese silver, and Japan was eyeing Yong State's advanced military technology.

Although Japan did not have any ambitions for the mainland at this time, since the Tang Dynasty, Japan has been eyeing the Koryo Peninsula. Now Koryo has few soldiers and its national power is extremely weak. Japan has the old Baekje noble forces as internal support. Are you also peeping at this opportunity?

Thinking of this, Chen Qing said to Zhong Huan: "The key point is to interrogate the three Japanese students and Li Zhen. I want to know Japan's intentions and see if I can find some clues from them."

"Wei Chen understands, Wei Chen continues to interrogate."

After Zhong Huan resigned, Chen Qing took up a pen and wrote the word "Japan" on the white paper. In the past two years, he rebuilt Anxi and opened up Nanyang, but he just forgot about Japan.

Japan will soon enter the era of the shogunate. This is the root of the birth of Japanese pirates and Japanese militarism in the future. This poisonous snake has to be vigilant!

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Zhong Huan returned to the official office, but heard someone calling him, "General Zhong!"

Zhong Huan turned around, but it was Kong Yuan who had provided him with a lot of information before, and he immediately ordered his subordinates, "Bring him to my official room!"

Zhong Huan returned to his official room, and after a while, Kong Yuan was brought up, "See you, General!"

"Has your son's poison been cured?" Zhong Huan asked with a smile.

When the inner guard caught Pei Qiushan, he found the poison and antidote in his room and gave a copy to Kong Yuan.

"My son's poison has been cured, thank you General!"

"Then why are you here looking for me?"

Kong Yuan violated the criminal law of the Yong Dynasty because of raising another housewife, and had already been dismissed. However, he exposed Goryeo for his meritorious service, and the emperor made an exception and gave him the honorary officer of Xiaoqiwei, so that he could marry a concubine and bring his son home. up.

Moreover, the 1000 taels of silver that Pei Qiushan gave Kong Yuan was not confiscated by the inner guards. It was regarded as a reward for him. Even if he was dismissed, his life would be guaranteed.

"The villain wants to start a wine business, but he doesn't have a brand. Can you please ask the inner guard to say hello to the Yantie Supervisor?"

The brand is the license to operate liquor. Every year, the Yantiejian and local governments will bid for it. It is regarded as a fiscal revenue for the government and the court. It started in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Only after obtaining a license can you buy wine koji cakes from the government to make wine, and then sell wine publicly. If you do not have a license to brew and sell wine, it is illegal. Once you are caught, the consequences will be disastrous, ranging from fines to jail. , will be beheaded.

Bootleggers, like salt dealers, have always been the focus of internal guards' crackdowns.

The imperial court is recuperating now, the business tax and household tax have been suspended, the shelf tax and other exorbitant taxes have also been abolished, and the land tax is also extremely low. Now it basically relies on salt tax, wine tax and other official revenue to maintain the operation of the court and the army.

Therefore, salt, wine, and sugar belong to the monopoly of the government, and they are all under the jurisdiction of the salt and iron supervision. The inspection is extremely strict, not only the salt and iron supervision, but also the internal guards.

Zhong Huan remembered this, took out a document and a sign from the drawer, and handed it to Kong Yuan with a smile, "We knocked down a private salt dealer before, and he used wine as a cover. He has a wine license and a wine deed. Prove it, and go to the Yantie Supervisor to change it."

Kong Yuan was overjoyed, with the certificate from the inner guard, the liquor license is legal, as long as he spends ten guan in Yantiejian to change it, the liquor license will belong to him, and he can renew it next year with only [-] guan.

It is very expensive to get a liquor license. It costs thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. You may not be able to get it. You need to draw lots. Once you get it, it can last for five years. Renewing the license every year is not expensive. After five years, you need to reapply. Of course Old liquor licenses have priority.

"Thank you! The villain is grateful."

"Go! I don't owe you anything."

Because of Kong Yuan's report, the inner guards caught Yao Kaishan and Pei Qiushan, and finally wiped out the Koryo intelligence network. However, Kong Yuan was dismissed from office, which made Zhong Huan feel guilty and gave him a liquor license to deal with him. Regarding the livelihood issue, Zhong Huan also settled a concern.

Having settled Kong Yuan's matter, Zhong Huan was in a good mood, and he immediately ordered: "Open the court and interrogate the three Japanese."

……

In the afternoon, Chen Qing met Liu Dajiang, and after nearly five months of rest, Liu Dajiang will lead the team to sail again.

"Are you ready?" Chen Qing asked with a smile.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, everything is ready. This time there will be 800 people sailing with me, and the other 200 people can no longer follow due to various reasons. I understand and will not force them."

Chen Qing nodded, and said to him again: "This time you are not trading, but experimenting and exploring. It will take about one to two years. You have three large ships, all of which are [-] shi. The steam engine, Taixue spent a winter transforming it, there will be craftsmen accompanying you, the power of the new ship is mainly coal and fresh water, you will test it in Nanyang for about half a year, and then start your exploration.”

Speaking of which, Chen Qing took out a roll of maps from the cabinet, which he drew by himself ten years ago, but he did not expect to finally use them.

He opened the map and said: "In the far south of the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom, there are two continents, one big and one small. The big one is about the same size as our Dayong Dynasty, and there are very few land people living there."

What Chen Qing was referring to was the later Australia. He drew this map ten years ago with a little vague memory of his previous life. If he was asked to draw it now, he might not be able to draw it.

"Then about thousands of miles to the east of this continent, there is another small continent here. It is actually two islands, the South Island and the North Island. This time you need to find these two continents and route them Established, and then two years later, from the north of Japan, along the coastline, you will see a more vast land in a few months, several times larger than our Yong Dynasty, a branch of our ancestors live there."

Liu Dajiang was puzzled and said: "The branch of our ancestors? I don't quite understand the humble job."

"It's a branch of Yin Shang that has been around for more than 2000 years. They went to a distant continent and established a new dynasty there. They are completely isolated from us. I hope you will go there in two years and establish contact with them."

Speaking of this, Chen Qing said with a smile: "Step by step, go to the south first, find two continents, I will send troops to emigrate there gradually, and then go to the other side of the ocean, complete these tasks, and your name will go down in history."

Liu Dajiang excitedly said: "This minister must live up to His Majesty's expectations and complete all tasks."

Chapter 570 Japanese Army

That night, Zhong Huan urgently asked to see the emperor Chen Qing, and Chen Qing received Zhong Huan in Linde Hall.

Zhong Huan bowed and said: "Your Majesty, today Li Zhen made a thorough confession. I feel that the matter is very important, so I will report to Your Majesty overnight!"

Chen Qing said calmly, "What's the big deal?"

"Japan is very likely to launch a war against Korea."

Chen Qing smiled slightly and asked, "How would Li Zhen know that Japan is going to start a war?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is some former Baekje nobles who colluded with the Japanese government and organized tens of thousands of so-called Baekje troops to prepare for the landing of the Japanese army. The time is between the spring and summer of this year."

Japan is preparing to attack Goryeo. Chen Qing is not surprised at all. Now that Koryo's young men are exhausted by the Jin Kingdom, the national power is extremely weak, but they don't know what to do. They provoke the traditional suzerain country. Now is a good opportunity to attack Goryeo. , Very good at seizing opportunities, this opportunity to attack Goryeo, it's no wonder they don't seize it.

Chen Qing said with a faint smile: "The Japanese want to come to Koryo to die, I can't wish for it, just let them come!"

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At the beginning of May, the [-] troops who conquered the grasslands returned, and the first batch of [-] troops from Anxi returned to Jingzhao. Chen Qing appointed Li as the governor of Anxi, commanded [-] troops to guard Anxi and Jinshan, and began to build a new building in the north of Jinshan. The city, as a trading army city.

At the same time, the imperial court passed a resolution of condemnation. Goryeo helped Jin invade the Central Plains. Goryeo soldiers massacred the Han people. They bear great responsibility for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chen Qing ordered an additional 20 troops to Liaodong, mobilized 28 ships, and transported a large amount of grain and grass materials to Liaodong by water. In addition, he sent troops by water to add 30 troops to Tamra Island, making a total of [-] troops, known as [-] troops. Crusade against Goryeo.

At this time, the Yong Dynasty was no longer as difficult as the Sui army's crusade against Goguryeo. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were expropriated, and food was delivered to Liaodong around the clock.

The shipping industry in the Yong Dynasty was very developed. After years of accumulation, there were as many as [-] official and private ships exceeding [-] shi. Most of them used paddles instead of traditional sails, so that the ships could go anywhere in all directions. .

Moreover, there are many waterways in Liaodong, and the water network is densely covered. Using ships to transport food and materials avoids the waste of people and money in the Sui Dynasty.

In addition, the Yong Dynasty adopted a voluntary and employment system for private ships, and hired ships at market prices instead of the previous compulsory system. As a result, the enthusiasm of the people was very high.Thousands of civilian ships formed strong support for the official ships.

This morning, on the east coast of Tamna Island, a cavalry was patrolling as usual. Suddenly, a soldier pointed to the sea in the distance and said, "How many ships are there!"

The leader of the patrol team raised his clairvoyance and looked towards the sea. After a while, he said to everyone: "Someone is calling for help on the boat, immediately notify the boat to go to sea for rescue!"

Two cavalrymen rushed towards the harbor on horseback. After a while, three large rescue ships sailed out of the bay and headed for the distant sea.

Not long after, an alarm bell sounded in the bay, 'Dang!when!when!when! '

This meant that there was an enemy situation, and the soldiers in the barracks rushed to the pier one after another. In just a moment, thousands of fully armed soldiers of the Yong Army gathered on the pier, holding bows, crossbows and spears, ready to fight.

The three boats dragged the two wrecked boats back, and the people on the wrecked boats turned out to be Japanese soldiers. There were about a dozen people in each boat, and each of them was short in stature, like children.

Everyone wore leather armor and hats, and Japanese knives on their waists, and some of them also carried several knives and held spears.

Under the order of the soldiers of the Yong army, they put down their weapons and disembarked tremblingly with their hands raised.

There were 27 people in total. The Yong army cavalry arranged for them to sit in two ox carts, and a hundred cavalry escorted them to the military camp twenty miles away.

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Since the attempted sneak attack by the Koryo Army, the garrison on Tamna Island has increased to 8000, and the main general is still Tang Tingan. Prepare.

The new camp has been arranged, and the soldiers are setting up the big tent, busy. At this time, a soldier came to report that the ship in the east bay rescued two shipwrecks on the sea. There were 27 Japanese soldiers on board. Send it to camp.